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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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The most valuable commodity (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by butiez to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Due to the lack of consumer protections, the US now accounts for 51% of the global data industry.

The global big data analytics market size was valued at USD 307.51 billion in 2023. The market is projected to grow from USD 348.21 billion in 2024 to USD 924.39 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 13.0% during the forecast period. The U.S. Big Data Analytics Market is anticipated to grow significantly, reaching an estimated value of USD 248.89 billion by 2032, driven by Increasing Adoption of Databases across Industries.

Source: https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/big-data-analytics-market-106179

The source auto-populated when I pasted the quoted text. That’s neat.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are "free" if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don't realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

How valuable is it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Well, potentially a lot, specially when sold for crossing data with other sources. I worked in a place willing to lose millions of dollars a month, without profit, hoping that eventually in 1 or 2 years the few bits of personal info they were capturing could be sold.

Also worked on another place that aggregated all public info available for everyone and allowed with 2 clicks understand many things about a person and all their family for example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

No one knows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Very.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What are they going to do with it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

It's basically your ID on the internet, at least if you're the regular person using same address everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

So you don't use anything that requires an email address? That's everything lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Hey, brother! Can you spare an IP address? Perhaps some browser cookies?